In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Daniel Newman is joined by partner and fellow analyst Shelly Kramer to explore what pandemic marketing looks like for Big Tech. Their conversation revolved around things to keep in mind as we transition to digital events and other marketing tactics — and the important pivot needed by Big Tech in order to stay connected with customers and prospects in the year ahead. Their conversation explored how companies are dealing with the events that they’ve bee...
May 07, 2020•29 min
On this episode of Navigate, a special six-part podcast series with Pexip and Futurum Research , host Daniel Newman talks with Giles Chamberlain about how to approach privacy and security for your video conferencing solutions. Video Conferencing Popularity Bringing Privacy and Security to the Forefront In the last month, video conferencing has seen an explosion in popularity due to shelter-in-place orders. More people are on video than ever before, but this huge increase has also brought increas...
May 07, 2020•18 min
On this special edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomed Richard Davies , Vice President at DXC Technology and Managing Director of Leading Edge Forum and Caitlin McDonald , Digital Anthropologist at Leading Edge Forum. Richard and Caitlin discussed findings from a recent report from LEF and the accelerated digital transformation that’s happening due to COVID-19. Reconfiguring the Collaborative Workspace Even before the pandemic we were seeing a massive...
May 04, 2020•27 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I’m joined by my colleague Olivier Blanchard and our focus today is on a discussion around contact tracing apps — and what these apps mean for privacy in the era of COVID-19. With the development and deployment of contract tracing apps, are privacy and security concerns taking a back seat when it comes to combating the COVID-19 pandemic? Olivier has written a lot on the topic of privacy and security concerns the world over in recent months. He has als...
Apr 30, 2020•31 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Chadd Kenney , Vice President and Chief Technologist at Clumio to discuss cloud and data storage, Backup as a Service, and the latest happenings in the company. Making Backup as a Service Simple Cloud solutions are mission-critical for the enterprise these days, but nobody really likes to manage these complex systems. Most enterprises have data spread across public and private clouds and SaaS solutions. En...
Apr 29, 2020•23 min
On this special edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomed Faisal Siddiqi , Chief Technologist, Innovation and Ecosystems at DXC Technology and Chris Swan , CTO of Global Delivery at DXC Technology. In this episode, the two talked to Daniel about the current state of upskilling and technology in the workforce especially in the wake of COVID-19. COVID-19 Pushing Digital Transformation Forward Almost overnight, companies around the world have been forced to c...
Apr 28, 2020•24 min
On this special edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Rafael Sweary , President and Co-founder of WalkMe to discuss COVID-19, successful business pivots in the wake of a crisis and what the future now looks like for the company. How WalkMe Addressed COVID-19 WalkMe was built around digital transformation. The ultimate goal of the company is to help other companies adopt technology faster. The Digital Adoption Platform was designed as a guidance system...
Apr 23, 2020•28 min
In this special edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Jason Mann , Vice President of IoT at SAS. Daniel and Jason discussed SAS’s response to COVID-19 and the impact IoT and AIoT have had on businesses all over the world. Analytics to Fight COVID-19 It’s almost cliche to say that we are living in an unprecedented time, but it’s still the case. SAS, like all companies, had to quickly reprioritize and pivot within the last month. The first priority obv...
Apr 20, 2020•31 min
3D printing technology has the potential to impact almost every industry in the world — whether it’s creating replacement parts for machines to quickly developing prototypes from scratch. Today, the impact 3D printing is having on the global fight against the coronavirus COVID-19 is significant. In this episode of our show, my colleague and fellow analyst Sarah Wallace and I take a look at the role 3D printing is playing — from rapidly creating protective face shields, respirator masks, nasal sw...
Apr 19, 2020•21 min
On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast — Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Bill Boswell , Vice President of Marketing at the Siemens Digital Industries Software, to discuss digital transformation in the age of COVID-19 and what companies across all industries are facing. It’s Not Time to Slow Down We are in an unprecedented time right now. Companies have the opportunity to pause and look at what they’re doing across the board. How they’re operating, what technologies are...
Apr 17, 2020•24 min
On this special edition of The Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomed Masum Mir , Vice President of Product for 5G Automation and Software for Cisco . Daniel and Masum discussed what Cisco has been doing to help the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, the transformation to software-defined infrastructure and what our new normal will look like after the pandemic is over. How Cisco is Helping the Community Cisco has made a big commitment to employees, partners, cli...
Apr 16, 2020•24 min
This episode of the Futurum Tech Video Podcast focuses on the post-pandemic business model and why rethinking and reworking should come before rebuilding and recovering. We decided to highlight just a few business categories with a view toward how they might rethink and rework their post-pandemic business models. Our focus in this discussion was on five categories: Education, Retail, Manufacturing, B2B Marketing and Sales, and Entertainment (Travel, Destinations, Sports). Here’s a look at what o...
Apr 13, 2020•35 min
On this special edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Eric Vogel , Global Vice President of Customer Experience with HPE Greenlake. Daniel and Eric discussed data storage solutions, consumption-based business models as well as how HPE is helping in the fight against COVID-19. HPE is Helping in the Fight Against COVID-19 Currently, HPE is working on giving back to the global community to help in the fight against COVID-19 in a few ways. First, the compan...
Apr 09, 2020•27 min
On this special edition of The Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Satish Thomas , Director of Product Management for Microsoft Dynamics 365 to discuss data, marketing technology, and customer insights in our current situation. Data Is Everything Our world is undergoing a fundamental change. Data is coming out of everything and everywhere. When customers call your company, use your product, interact with your social media posts, visit your website, they are creati...
Apr 07, 2020•21 min
In this special edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomed Doug Merritt , CEO of Splunk to discuss how data applies to everything — even in the fight against COVID-19, business continuity, and what Splunk is doing outside of the COVID-19 realm. Looking at Data Differently At the foundation of digital transformation is data. About five weeks ago, Splunk created a series of free dashboards hosted in the cloud that showed data about the spread of the virus an...
Apr 03, 2020•30 min
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, I’m joined by my colleague and fellow analyst, Olivier Blanchard, in a discussion about the COVID-19 related rapid deployment of tech that we are experiencing as a result of the coronavirus outbreak and the new security risks posed as a result. Our goal is to highlight some of those security risks, offer suggestions on how to mitigate those risks, and also explore some other goings on in the world of cybersecurity along the way, largely driven as well...
Mar 28, 2020•34 min
For this week’s episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, host Shelly Kramer is joined by Sarah Wallace and Ron Westfall. In our Main Dive discussion, they talked about Zoho, Zoom, Cisco, Intel, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other tech brands who are doing good in tough times. From Cisco offering free Webex licenses to employees working from home to Zoom offering K-12 schools the use of its video conference platform for free, tech companies are stepping up and doing what they can to help businesses,...
Mar 23, 2020•26 min
In the latest episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, The Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes Dr. George Mathew , who is an internal medicine physician and Chief Medical Officer for the Americas for DXC Technology. He also welcomes Paul Thompson , Vice President of Global Healthcare Strategy and Product Development for DXC Technology. In this podcast episode, the two talked to Dan about the current state of price transparency in the medical field—and how technology can improve this issue. Firs...
Mar 19, 2020•28 min
As the coronavirus COVID-19 sweeps into our lives, remote work (and remote learning) are rapidly becoming the “new normal” for many of us, ushering in a new means of communication and collaboration. We thought it would be an interesting topic to dive into for our Futurum Tech podcast. In this episode, I’m joined by my fellow analysts and colleagues at Futurum Research, Sarah Wallace and Fred McClimans, and all three of us have decades of experience working remotely. While using video communicati...
Mar 16, 2020•41 min
In the latest episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, The Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes three experts to talk about robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA). Francis Carden is one of the founders of OpenSpan and is currently VP of Digital Automation and Robotics at Pegasystems. Lee Coulter is CEO of transformAI, and Jon Gilman is CEO of Clear Software. Together, they gave Dan some great insight on the future of RPA and IA. To start off, they defined RPA as a metho...
Mar 13, 2020•32 min
This week’s episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, included analysts Daniel Newman, Fred McClimans and Sarah Wallace. We discussed the collaboration and e-learning opportunities that may arise from the coronavirus outbreak. We also covered financial cloud startup Thought Machine receiving next round of funding, Cisco Webex’s global support of customers during this time, Elliott Management buying stake in Twitter, AT&T launching its AT&T TV service nationwide and Microsoft entering the RPA ...
Mar 03, 2020•37 min
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, host Olivier Blanchard was joined by colleague and fellow analyst, Ron Westfall. They discuss what organizations need to know about the EU’s newly proposed guidelines for artificial intelligence and Apple’s hit to the bottom line as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. They also cover the T-Mobile Sprint merger and what they think is ahead in the telecoms market and explored thoughts about the role automation will play in 5G operations. Lastly, they ...
Feb 25, 2020•19 min
On this week’s episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, Shelly Kramer is joined by her colleague and fellow analyst, Olivier Blanchard. In our Main Dive, we tackled this week’s news of the injunction issued by a judge in the case filed by Amazon protesting the award of the Pentagon’s $10Bn 10-year Department of Defense contract (referred to as the JEDI contract) to Microsoft. THIS WEEK’s FAST FIVE Update on the FTC vs. Qualcomm case that’s going before the 9th Circuit Court FBI warns software provid...
Feb 15, 2020•36 min
This episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, The Interview Series, is sponsored by SAP and Vistex. Daniel Newman is joined by Richard Whittington, Senior Vice President of Media and Entertainment for SAP and Amos Biegun, Global Head of Rights and Royalties for Vistex. Today they are talking about media entertainment. For everybody out there that wants to think about this even at a simpler level, they're going to talk about what's going on with content and streaming and what you're listening to in t...
Feb 14, 2020•19 min
In the latest episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, The Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes Chris James, CEO of Scaled Agile. Chris and his company focus on building frameworks to help organizations move digital transformation forward as seamlessly as possible. After all, digital transformation is no longer just about technology. It’s the blending of technology and humans as the industry evolves, which means businesses of all kinds are affected and could use some guidance dealing with consta...
Feb 12, 2020•22 min
On this week's edition of the Futurum Tech Podcast, how the coronavirus may change tech trade shows in the future. Apple gets fined by the EU, Google earnings analysis, the space race heats up again and Britain points the way to Huawei 5G network compromise. THIS WEEK’s FAST FIVE > Alphabet’s 4th quarter 2019 results show promising growth > Nvidia’s GE Force NOW eliminates wait lists and opens memberships to all > Apple is being fined by France’s DGCCRF for slowing down old iPhones >...
Feb 07, 2020•34 min
In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, The Interview Series, Daniel Newman welcomes Zendesk’s Shawna Wolverton, SVP of Product, and Sarah Reed, CX Leader/Event Creator. Together, they discussed the latest trends in customer experience, what customer experience leaders should think about for years ahead, and more. INFORMATION: This Futurum Podcast features Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanUV, Shawna Wolverton (@shawnawol)and Sarah Reed (@stealeyreed). If you haven't already, please subsc...
Jan 31, 2020•25 min
In this week’s episode of Futurum Tech Podcast we cover news of IBM’s CEO Rometty stepping down and the rise of the technologist in enterprise leadership roles. THIS WEEK’s FAST FIVE > Cyberattacks and e-skimming on the rise > EU lawmakers snub Apple’s pleas, voting to push for charging cable standard > Huawei surpasses Apple to become the second largest smartphone vendor globally > UPS investment in EVs and what’s ahead > British telcos must rethink planned 5G investments This we...
Jan 31, 2020•34 min
This week we take a look at Atlassian and the collaboration space. Can this company upend the way we collaborate and the market? Plus, we take a look at how CIOs are aging up in the industry. We'll talk about cloud, we'll talk about Tencent, gaming, and 2020, is it the year of the chip? THIS WEEK’s FAST FIVE > The Average Age of CIOs Nudges Higher > Cloud Native Computing Foundation Annual Report > YouTube Content Moderators Must Acknowledge that a Side of PTSD Might Well Come With the ...
Jan 24, 2020•43 min
Elon Musk, Space Travel, and its impact on the tech industry. In this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast we explore the giant impact this will have across multiple industries and more. THIS WEEK’s FAST FIVE > Microsoft and Samsung team up > Smaller rivals are now joining the growing chorus singing “Break up Big Tech’s Monopoly" > Google launches online coding course in Python to train workers for tech jobs > Mojo Vision puts augmented reality screen on contact lens > Visa's acqui...
Jan 17, 2020•26 min
